Nortel Networks 2700 manual SSL VPN Module

Appendix A Technical specifications 81

The VPN Router Security Accelerator card is the successor to the Hardware Accelerator card. The Hardware Accelerator Hifn 7811 card has been discontinued effective January 2006 although Nortel still supports this card. Along with providing support for AES, the VPN Router Security Accelerator card provides increased encryption throughput and improved compression performance.

Note: The VPN Router card has one green LED; the Hardware

Accelerator card has no LEDs.

At startup, when you manually enable an accelerator card, or when the accelerator recovers from a failure, the power-on self-test (POST) verifies the integrity of the hardware. This test includes validation of the accelerator’s encryption, MAC, and compression algorithms against their software counterparts. In the event POST fails, the accelerator card is set offline.

For more information about the VPN Router Security Accelerator card and the

Hardware Accelerator card and instructions for configuring these cards, see the guide Nortel VPN Router Configuration — Advanced Features (NN46110-502).

SSL VPN Module 1000

The SSL VPN Module 1000 provides complete SSL VPN processing capability to the VPN Router. This module provides a unified solution for IPsec and remote access SSL VPN.

Figure 31 shows the SSL VPN Module 1000.

Figure 31 SSL VPN Module 1000

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The SSL VPN Module 1000 has no external access: all traffic to and from the SSL VPN Module 1000 card occurs over an internal high-speed link.

Nortel VPN Router Installation — VPN Router 2700